History Recap / RedDwarfThePromisedLand

** While it takes him awhile to say it, Lister does admit that he needs Rimmer when trying to convince him to stay plugged in to Starbug, eventually using a metaphor to describe why their relationship is important and why they need each other.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The Cat finally admits that while he doesn't like Rimmer, he ''likes'' not liking him. He also affirms his true home as Red Dwarf, and not with his fellow ''Felis sapiens''.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: There's an almost completely straight discussion about this regarding Rimmer; is he really "Rimmer" or [[CloningBlues just a light-bee computer impersonally simulating Rimmer]]?

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: One of the Cat Priests is a mute, but upon meeting Lister, she starts talking, believing that he granted her the power of speech. When Lister admits to not being their god, she falls mute once more [[spoiler:and regains her speech after the Cats start worshipping Rimmer instead)]].

* RetCon: When we first met the Cat, we were told he was the offspring of an abandoned "idiot and cripple". Now we hear that he was left behind because he was considered uncool.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The Cat finally admits that while he doesn't like Rimmer, he ''likes'' not liking him. His also affirms his true home as Red Dwarf, and not with his fellow ''Felis sapiens''.

* OpeningScroll: The fade in, fade out variant is used at the start of the movie to explain how the Cat People came to have evolved and left Red Dwarf.
* ThePromisedLand: Well, yeah. At the very end of the episode, the cat-priests tell the Dwarfers that [[spoiler: they consider it to be a state of mind, rather than an actual planet somewhere]].

A ninety-minute one-off special, in which we and the crew of Red Dwarf finally learn what happened to the rest of the humanoid Cat species after leaving the vessel of their origin in search of, well, Fucshal the Promised Land. It turns out they've been traveling all around the universe in a fleet of ships, and there's recently been a coup, with a faction of "Feral" cats led by the intimidating Rodon who have overthrown the priest-followers of "Cloister". Three of the priests escape and find their way to the Dwarfers, with Rodon in pursuit.

* AchillesPowerCord: Rimmer burns out his light-bee battery, and is forced to string a chain of these across the ship in order to stay powered up.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The Cat finally admits that while he doesn't like Rimmer, he ''likes'' not liking him. His also affirms his true home as Red Dwarf, and not with his fellow Felix Sapiens.
* BondVillainStupidity: Instead of just blasting Red Dwarf from his ship, Rodon insists on cementing his rule by hauling aboard a BigBulkyBomb set with a timer.

* CassetteFuturism: Holly's backup is a giant floppy disk.

** When Rimmer gets upgraded, he jumps through all the various uniforms he's had over the decades.
** The priests having cigarettes stuck in one ear comes from Lister having done it once in one episode way back at the start of the series.

* DisneyDeath: Kryten shuts down near the end, but Rimmer uses his Light Bee to recharge him at the expense of giving up his ability to use [[SuperMode diamond light mode]].
* DumbassHasAPoint: The Cat rightfully points out that Rimmer's thoughts consist of what the computer in his Light Bee believes the real Rimmer would be thinking.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Holly blows up the desert moon that the Dwarfers are on in a bid to eject them back into space. It ends up working.
* EasyEvangelism: When the Cat tries to convince the Cat Priests that Lister isn't their god, their words manage to convert him in moments.

* FromBadToWorse: The crew's situation after fleeing Red Dwarf in a Starbug. They end up with no engines and no food buried on a desert moon.

* GodGuise: Lister is seen as Cloister, the cats' god. He's not happy about this, but doesn't want to destroy their faith. At the end of the episode, they [[spoiler: switch their allegiance to Rimmer, who is much happier about it.]]

* MyInstinctsAreShowing: See above under Laser Sight. Plus jokes like having giant cat-doors instead of normal portals, and eating vile meat lumps from equally large tins.
* MythologyGag: Black and White Rimmer is how the producers originally wanted to depict him when the show started, but the budget and technology of the time didn't allow for it. The concept of Rimmer having to run in low power mode was also first used in Rob Grant's solo ''Literature/RedDwarf'' novel, though he wound up being transparent there instead. Additionally, the idea of a Black and White Rimmer has also been previously explored in the [[Magazine/RedDwarf magazine]], which depicted him as a monochrome hologram.

* NoPowerNoColor: Holograms are revealed to be capable of going into "Low-Power Mode" to conserve energy, which leads to them turning greyscale. This ends up being a fate which befalls Rimmer when the crew need to conserve energy.

* ThePromisedLand: Well, yeah. At the very end of the episode, the cat-priests tell the Dwarfers that [[spoiler: they consider it to be a state of mind, rather than an actual planet somewhere.]]
* RedHerring: The Iron Star. It's a big fancy super-advanced ship, with an equally elaborate set, seems destined to become the crew's new home after they have to flee Red Dwarf ...and after a short visit, it gets unceremoniously blown up by the Ferals. The crew later attempts to find a crashed piece of it to use in repairing Starbug ...and fail. They end up back on Red Dwarf.

* SchmuckBait: The Dwarfers tempt the re-booted Holly into integrating the old version's still-existing memories by letting him assume that the 3 million years run time would have made him smarter, not dumber, as case really is.

* SplashOfColor: Rimmer is black and white in his power saving mode

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In Universe example with the visit to the Iron Star, which is more advanced than Red Dwarf, and made the subject of a gag with Holly's backup disk, which is a gigantic hard-case floppy disk that makes dial-up modem squealing noises when booted up.

* TookAShortcut: It takes Starbug months to reach the Iron Star but Red Dwarf later catches up with them in seconds. It was either following them the whole time or is ridiculously faster.

* VisualPun: The various ships of the Cat fleet can arrange themselves to create a cartoony cat face. At the end of the episode, they [[spoiler: have become Rimmer worshipers, and reconfigure into a H.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The whole episode is an attempt to answer that question. Or rather, What Happened To The Cats?

* IAteWhat: It would have been nice to find out the Anubis "Stone" was made of beetle dung ''before'' licking it.

* AchillesPowerCord: After burning out his light-bee battery, Rimmer is reduced to using one of these.

* NeverMyFault: When the crew discover the Diamond Light upgrade, Rimmer is insistent on having himself upgraded immediately, ignoring Kryten's suggestion that they perform a compatibility test first. When the Diamond Light mode causes Rimmer's Light Bee to almost burn out, Rimmer immediately blames Kryten for not performing the test.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Installing the backup copy of Holly turns out to be a really bad idea.
* NoPowerNoColor: Holograms are revealed to be capable of going into "Low-Power Mode" to conserve energy, which leads to them turning greyscale. This ends up being a fate which befalls Rimmer when the crew need to conserve energy.